Hello

I will cherish this hello because

we don’t know when

we might be saying good bye

We don’t know how, we don’t know why —

we might be rent asunder by events,

or maybe we will drift

along the currents of our attention

and not notice

till we haven’t seen each other

in a long time

You may visit me in a dream,

I may wake up feeling unmoored

from my accustomed havens.

We may not know how

to talk to each other anymore

But all this speculation

may be keeping me

from this connection,

this perception, this igniting,

this hello.

©Wendy Mulhern

January 30, 2018